Zambian kwacha

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The Zambian kwacha is the official fiat currency of Zambia, used for everyday transactions and issued by the Bank of Zambia.

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Label Occurrences
Zambian kwacha canonical 4
kwacha 1

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fiat currency
national currency
belongsToCurrencyFamily kwacha currencies
category currencies of Africa
centralBank Bank of Zambia
country Zambia
currencySymbol K
dateOfCurrencyRebasing 2013
dateOfIntroduction 1968
denominationSystem decimal
exchangeRateRegime floating
hasBanknotes yes
hasCoins yes
hasSubunitNamePlural ngwee
hasUnitNamePlural Zambian kwacha self-linksurface differs
surface form: kwacha
isFiatBackedBy authority of the Zambian government
ISO4217Code ZMW
issuer Bank of Zambia
languageOfName Nyanja
legalStatus legal tender
legalTenderIn Zambia
meaningOfName dawn
monetaryArea Zambian economy
monetaryAuthority Bank of Zambia
monetaryPolicyManagedBy Bank of Zambia
notToBeConfusedWith Malawian kwacha
officialCurrencyOf Zambia
peggedTo none
reasonForRebasing remove three zeros from denominations
region Africa
regulator Bank of Zambia
replacedCurrency Zambian pound
securityFeaturesManagedBy Bank of Zambia
subunit ngwee
subunitToUnit 100 ngwee = 1 kwacha
type paper money and coins
usedBy Zambian businesses
Government of Zambia
surface form: Zambian government

Zambian residents
usedFor everyday transactions
payment of taxes in Zambia
pricing of goods and services in Zambia
settlement of domestic debts in Zambia
usedIn Zambia
usedInCapitalCity Lusaka, Zambia
surface form: Lusaka

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zambia currency Zambian kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia currency Zambian kwacha
subject surface form: Lusaka
Zambian kwacha hasUnitNamePlural Zambian kwacha self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: kwacha
less developed than Victoria Falls locatedInCountryWithCurrency Zambian kwacha
subject surface form: Ngonye Falls
Kitwe currency Zambian kwacha